joss would always remind me to use a calm face, because that’s ok to watch.

Exhibit number nth of why I’m just so so glad that Fury Road exists.

Ahhh someone found the interview where Elizabeth Olsen is talking about “calm faces.” 

The full interview is here. And it’s kind of fascinating, because the conversation starts out with the interviewer talking about how she has a great primal scream, and she’s the one who’s like “no, no, but you can’t always do that showing-emotion thing and here’s why.”

It’s really kind of sad. She’s an actor. Her job is to show us her feelings. And she’s saying that her natural instinct as an actor in this scene is to show emotion, but the director told her not to, because God forbid her face look “unattractive.” And you can say that this is a conversation about the technicalities of slow-motion, but it’s really not, because those technicalities are centered around making sure a woman’s face still looks “attractive” in the middle of a fight. The idea of a woman showing intense emotion during a fight or making a face that’s not “pretty” is so outside the conventions that she has to be deliberately over-the-top with her example face (which is actually a totally awesome face) and turn the whole thing into a joke we can all laugh at together. Like, haha, that’s so silly, we all know I wouldn’t do that.

Seriously, fuck all this. Let women have some goddam emotions on screen like normal human beings.

I fucking dare you to tell me Joss Whedon is a feminist. I fucking dare you. 

a complete list of my fav Snape moments!!!!!!

• that time Harry dragged his whole life with “there’s no need to call me ‘sir’, professor”

Remember when I told you how much I loved Love, Actually? No, I don’t. You told me you loved it, so I went home and googled it. And I memorized the synopsis, and I told you I loved it too.

it really irritates me that to be a good employee we can’t just perform the function we’re hired to do correctly and appropriately but have to do all this extra “above and beyond” bullshit we’re not compensated for

like the capitalist corporate culture than encourages us to work harder and harder and do more and more essentially for free? nope, i do my job and i do it exceptionally well but if i am ask to perform more services then i need to be paid for them

i find this is a v gendered phenomenon too like my supervisors have always expected me to put in more effort and be more accommodating and do more “just a quick favor” stuff than my coworkers/colleagues who are men, who are either not expected to contribute as much or are compensated more for making said contributions

This is actually a thing.

Speaking as someone who as worked corporate..this is definitely a thing.

whoa 2 of my all time favourite artists 

p.s. dropping video in the next hour, we’re just coordinating with the UK stuff

Sebastian Stan explaining the plot of The Martian.

Cary Fukunaga expresses his thoughts on Idris Elba as James Bond and his thoughts on Idris Elba in general. 

pretty-black-bitch my thoughts exactly 

Lol. Cary knows what’s up.

(via xkcd: Frankenstein)

Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them

That second to last panel is chilling.

reblogging again for linzeestyle’s tags, because, OMG, *TRUTH*

#fandom#harry potter#this is the real reason fandom is mocked derided and insulted by creators#because it *can’t* be packaged and resold#because our culture doesn’t know how to sell sex to women outside of the male gaze#and because women have created a community where they don’t need to buy anything to get what they want#and to people whose entire livelihoods#depend on creating and marketing unattainable ‘perfection’ to young women#telling them what sex and sex appeal is#how they should feel about it#and how they should desire it#and what they need to buy to be worth it#our entire economy is based on women being cut into parts and those parts being sexualized#and turned back around and sold to men and women alike#and fandom doesn’t participate#it creates its own economy and there’s no space for that model#that’s terrifying#and the people who used to hold all the cards mock it#because they lost the ‘C&D and shut-down’ alternative

#and because women have created a community where they don’t need to buy anything to get what they want

I think about this ALL THE TIME. I fucking love it. 

Fandom is the most brilliant, beautiful, collaborative, critical, deeply subversive stuff there is and I ADORE IT TO PIECES.

And no, it’s not all women—certainly not, absolutely not. But I’d say it’s vast majority women. (…Ridiculous crazy vast majority anybody-except-cis-men.) I know I often think of fandom as a feminine and/or queer-centered space.

I’m reblogging for the added commentary and to add a link to a meta I recently came across. The whole thing is worth a read, but the first paragraph really resonates:

Basically

“we all eventually have one.”

Except for those who aren’t weren’t “entitled” to exist past 18.

imagine being this boring.

But wait… there’s more!

The author says he’s a millennial but the dude looks like he’s at least 45.

I’m being generous here because he actually looks older than my dad, and my dad’s 55.

HE’S FUCKING 58 I JUST FOUND IT HE LITERALLY SAID HE’S 58 HOW IS THAT A MILLENNIAL

THE CAP FOR BEING A MILLENNIAL IS 34 WHAT THE FUCK

How sway?! HOW! ^^^^

if you’re american and coming to australia, I’m gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude named “dane” in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here

SO WE STARTED A HOCKEY LEAGUE 

Well I just got very emotional. 

I relate to this on a spiritual level.

If you’d told me a month ago that Lin-Manuel Miranda had set up secret cameras in my house and was just reenacting my life I would’ve said you were crazy and yet here we are

ok but like how awkward were things between isaac and abraham after the angel told abe not to kill his son

like could you imagine dinner that night

sarah: oh so how was the hike you guys?

isaac: yeah dad. how was the hike. 

abraham: haha well (sweats)

Everything is a Remix: the remastered fifth anniversary edition

Kirby Ferguson writes, “Everything is a Remix has been polished, merged and rereleased for its fifth anniversary.”

Everything is a Remix is Ferguson’s amazing, must-watch series of videos analyzing the way that incorporating direct lifts from songs, movies and other art forms is critical to creative production. Watch these now, be amazed.

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